This Morning; poems
Flanner, Hildegarde
<a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21351126730001101" target="_blank">PS 3535 .A845Y4 1938 </a><br />Duke no. 927<br /><br />This book is from Cabell's personal library. Now located in the Cabell Room.
Winter Stars [cover proof]
Proof of cover design for <em>Winter Stars. </em>Printed on card stock.
Gore, Gary
M 426, Box 8, folder 4, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Air Born: An Artist's Book
Kresge, Ann M.
VCU Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives
1994
Winter Stars [handwritten by Levis on notepaper]
Handwritten version of Winter Stars. Not in final form.
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 7, folder 1, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Winter Stars [photocopy with comments by Philip Levine]
Poem on two pages; each page signed at top "Larry Levis." Reader's comments handwritten by Philip Levine.<br />Ink stain at right appears to have happened after comments were penned.
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 9, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Winter Stars [typed with reader's comments in pencil]
Poem typed on three pages with unidentified reader's comments handwritten in pencil.
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 5, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Winter Stars [draft title page]
Draft title page of manuscript for <em>Winter Stars</em> [book].<br />Signed by author.<br /><br />Four possible titles (typed and handwritten in black ink) have been struck through in blue ink, leaving "Winter Stars" which has been circled in blue ink.<br /><br /><strong>Rejected titles:</strong><br />Late Styles of Fire<br />Horse And Star<br />A Chronicle 1980 - 1983<br />The Winter Stars
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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California/Winter Stars [signed draft with revisions]
Typewritten draft of poem in two pages; each page signed by the author at top right. <br />Original title "California" struck through. <br />Corrections and revisions in the author's handwriting. <br /><br />Name of the man in this stae, "Armando Vasquez."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, typed with revisions]
Untitled poem [Winter Stars]. Two pages, possibly created at different times.<br />Typed drafts with handwritten revisions. <br />Signed by author.<br /><br />Variations from final version include: <br />man named as Armando Vargas<br />composers named are Stravinsky and Prokofieff <br />"When I left home at seventeen, I left / Forever" and<br />"When I left home at seventeen, / I left forever"
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Handwritten notes [Winter Stars]
Early lines that would become the poem "Winter Stars."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, handwritten draft]
Untitled poem, handwritten draft, single page. [Winter Stars]
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, handwritten draft]
Single page, handwritten draft begins, "When I left home forever at seventeen..."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Winter Stars [signed, typed draft]
Typed draft with revisions, signed by the author. Man's name is "Ruben Vasquez." Strike through changes line from "wanted to kill his own father" to "wanted to kill his daughter." <br /><br />Handwritten revision at side, "I don't know. When I left home at seventeen, I left for good."<br /><br />Second page (-2) signed. Final stanzas repeated with variation.
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Draft [Winter Stars, typed with revisions]
Single page (part of larger draft?), typed draft with handwritten revisions. <br /><br />Ending variant: <br />"On a black sky <br />Out there, it's cold enough <br />To reconcile even a father with his son."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00163.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Hell is not a punk musicians' bar [notes on cocktail napkin]
Levis' handwritten notes on a white cocktail napkin.<br /><br />Associated with the poems "Letter" and "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7 typed draft with revisions / After the Blue Note Closes]
Typed draft identified as page 7 of the poem "A Letter" with handwritten revisions. <br />The phrase "so at last we'll have something in common" appears in Levis' revisions.<br /><br />This work would eventually be separated from "A Letter" and published in the book <em>Winter Stars</em> as "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [photocopied draft]
Photocopied draft in seven pages of "A Letter."<br /><br />This version would undergo further revision. Eventually, page seven would be separated and become "After the Blue Note Closes," a poem also published in <em>Winter Stars</em>.
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [handwritten draft]
Handwritten draft of the ending to "A Letter" (2 pages).
This work would eventually become "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7 draft with revisions, calculations at right]
Typed draft of page 7 of "The Letter" with handwritten revisions. Numerical calculations in right margin.<br /><br />Possible revision written over first line: "Tonight, holding another /a stranger in my arms--"<br />Various lines explore possibilities for expressing "with great care."
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7 typed draft with revisions]
Typed draft of page 7 of "A Letter" with handwritten revisions. <br /><br />This work would eventually become "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7, typed draft with revisions, signed "Love,"]
<span>Typed draft of page 7 of "The Letter" with handwritten revisions. This version of the poem ends with the familiar letter closing, "Love,".</span>
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7 typed with revisions, "Postscript:" at top ]
<span>Typed draft of page 7 of "A Letter" with handwritten revisions and correction fluid. The word "Postscript:" at top of page is crossed out. <br /><br />This work would eventually be separated from "A Letter" and published in the book </span><em>Winter Stars</em><span> as "After the Blue Note Closes."</span>
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled draft [handwritten draft of "A Letter." "The Bel Aires!" at top right corner]
Handwritten draft of verses that would first be part of "A Letter" and finally become the poem "After the Blue Note Closes."<br /><br />A band name "The Bel Aires!" appears within parentheses at the top right corner of the page with an arrow point to the place it should be inserted in the text.
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Flickering in pools of rain. [handwritten draft on notebook paper]
Handwritten draft beginning: <br />"Flickering in pools of rain. That street. That rain." (Editorial marks indicate that the order of those last two phrases should be reversed.)<br /><br />The work would first become part of the ending to "A Letter." Later, those verses would be separated to become the poem "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled draft [typed with handwritten revisions, "A Letter"]
Untitled draft of verse which would become first part of , "A Letter" and ultimately "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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